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Gavin's life was so much bigger than he was. He was a son, a little brother to Ryan and Nicholas, a cousin, a grandson, a nephew, a friend... and an inspiration. He would want each of us to know that our lives have much greater a purpose than what we can see on the surface. We just need to listen to that little voice inside of us, that tells us which way to go.
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Help is On the Wayhttps://amazinggavin.wordpress.com/2016/06/19/help-is-on-the-way-2/
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So you’re not feeling well, you’ve got all these symptoms, and you’re getting all kinds of advice, right? Things like:

… drink lots of lemon water every morning
… you’ve got to get alkaline
… you just need to start working out and get sweating
… stay away from gluten
… drink more water!
… what you need is our next 30 day detox!
… stay away from meat
… drink more coffee, drink less coffee!
… replenish your electrolytes with this sports drink
… carbohydrates are bad, eat more protein
… you need to eat more greens
… drink these shakes, they’ll balance you
… stay away from sugar, including fruit
… drink lots of distilled water
… don’t drink distilled – it leaches minerals!
… take high doses of vitamin C
… take a detox bath with epsom salts and you’ll feel great … take a bunch of…

… drink lots of lemon water every morning
… you’ve got to get alkaline
… you just need to start working out and get sweating
… stay away from gluten
… drink more water!
… what you need is our next 30 day detox!
… stay away from meat
… drink more coffee, drink less coffee!
… replenish your electrolytes with this sports drink
… carbohydrates are bad, eat more protein
… you need to eat more greens
… drink these shakes, they’ll balance you
… stay away from sugar, including fruit
… drink lots of distilled water
… don’t drink distilled – it leaches minerals!
… take high doses of vitamin C
… take a detox bath with epsom salts and you’ll feel great
… take a bunch of B12, that’s what you need!
… drink Kangen water or ozonated water
… disease only lives in acidic bodies
… just lose weight… (but how?)
… you need potassium, you need magnesium
… lower your cholesterol
… and stay away from sodium
… cut out the dairy, processed foods and sugar and you’re good
… milk – it does a body good!

OR… You’re doing the same health routine that got you healthy and helped you feel great previously, but now you’re not feeling so good anymore and you don’t understand why.

Are you taking a bunch of supplements but they don’t seem to be making any difference? You’re still tired all the time and you can’t get out of your own way? Or maybe your kids just can’t sit still and your doctor (or school) wants them to be on drugs for hyperactivity? It sounds to me like you’re all missing something to do with the basics.

I’m sure we’ve each heard many of these things in our quest to regain health, but which ones can we believe? Which one’s going to apply to you? I’m sure each of these things worked for someone at some point to help them feel great. But the question is… Which one of these things is going to work for you? For YOUR body?! For your kids?

Why in the world would you guess? When you can be sure.

If your doctor or naturopathic practitioner is not doing Reams (RBTI) pH urine and saliva analysis, you need to ask them why not. I mean, allergy testing sounds like a great idea, and yes, you get a neat printout… but it’s still not going to help you understand WHY you’re allergic to something in the first place. An allergy is not the cause. The dog or the cat is not the cause. The infection is not the cause. No, your gene mutation is not the cause either. Why is that allergy there in the first place? Why is that infection there in the first place? What are you so deficient in that caused that gene to mutate in the first place? Your body is a survivor. It adapts to the environment in which you have put it, and to what you have fed it as fuel. It does what it can with what you give it, and when in survival mode it makes choices and prioritizes, and turns functions off (or back on!) – just like you would, at work or at home.

If you’ve been seeing someone for your health concerns and things do not seem to be getting better, or you’re taking pharmaceuticals with no end in sight… call me or email me and let’s make an appointment to see how your kidneys and your liver are working, whether your digestion is functioning properly, if you’re drinking too much or too little water, and if you’re mineral deficient, and in what minerals? And why?

People don’t drop dead out of the blue. There are nutritional signs in every day bodily functions (and excretions) that your doctor is paying not one bit of attention to.

Stop spending money on supplements that are not working. Stop supporting drug companies and doctors that are not helping your body to get well. Stop throwing spaghetti at the wall hoping something is going to work. If they’re not educating you to help yourself then they’re just selling you stuff. Life is too precious to waste.

I see so clearly now that this type of analysis could have absolutely saved my Gavin’s life, and yet every single doctor we went to missed it – both natural and allopathic. They were too focused on their specialty pet drugs or methods, or trying to sell us a bunch of specialty testing that would take us into the weeds. They could not see the forest for the trees. The basics of life.

No, I’m not a medical doctor and I don’t diagnose diseases. Frankly, I don’t even believe in diseases anymore. Disease labels are something your doctor uses to name a collection of symptoms so they can prescribe you drugs, and then your life insurance company can deny you coverage.

What I can tell you, from a nutritional and toxicity standpoint, is how you can help your own body to help itself, and that is exactly what you must do. Your body is desperately waiting for you to give it what it needs.

Susan Fink, CNHP
Email: susanfinkforhomes@gmail.com

(805) 630-7418

]]>https://amazinggavin.wordpress.com/2016/06/19/help-is-on-the-way/feed/5SAMSUNGamazinggavinOn Being 10 Years Oldhttps://amazinggavin.wordpress.com/2015/11/16/on-being-10-years-old/
https://amazinggavin.wordpress.com/2015/11/16/on-being-10-years-old/#commentsMon, 16 Nov 2015 20:07:41 +0000http://amazinggavin.wordpress.com/?p=182Continue reading →]]>So, the other night at the Town Center tree lighting, my husband and I were understandably a bit emotional. Beforehand, as we were doing a little dry-run of the words we were going to say, Ryan overheard us talking and looked up from what he was doing in surprise and hurt and said, “what? it’s already been a year? without Gavin?” and as he hid his face in his hands his tears started to pour out. Yep, it’s been a year.

Nicholas on the other hand, who is 10, doesn’t show tears as often, and not usually about Gavin. But I know he is holding it inside somewhere, even though we all talk about Gavin often and it is a given he is painfully missed by all of us. Painfully missed. So how can he not be?

But at dinner afterward, somehow the subject of being in the newspaper came up, and Nicholas started to lose it. Why was he crying, we wanted to know? After all, if we don’t know why he’s crying, we can’t help get rid of the reason. The reason he gave is “because he doesn’t want his picture to be in the newspaper anymore” and of course, at the tree lighting dedication there were photographers, right there in front of us, taking pictures of the family on behalf of the local paper.

Was he worried about creepers seeing his picture in the paper and trying to get him? Was he worried the kids would treat him differently at school? As we talked through it a bit, it occurred to me that the real reason he is probably not wanting his picture in the paper, is because it is one more, lasting visual reminder, that his life is not normal right now, he’s been through something awful, and having your picture in the paper is one more reminder of all the hurt and pain of the last couple of years, and even after having lost Gavin, the pain didn’t end there. All he wants, is for the hurt to end, to be a normal kid with a normal life and have something real to look forward to, and it is super painful to try to be ‘normal’ every day, yet constantly be pulled back into looking at a painful past.

This is where what I’m going to write today gets cringe-worthy – at least for me.

As I tried to put myself into his shoes so I could understand his perspective better, a very vivid memory came to mind. Yes, I remember being 10 years old. I remember thinking I had a whole lot of things all figured out. Yes, I’ve always been smart, and for some reason quick to figure things out. I remember the day of my tenth birthday, and my parents giving me a brand new Panasonic clock radio. I can still see it clear as day in my head! As the day went on, no other gifts came my way, and I had ‘figured out’ that this clock radio probably cost somewhere in the vicinity of $30. Today of course that is chump change, but back in 1979 it was not and in comparison to what I saw my friends being lavished with on their birthdays however, it was just a little token. In my view, the clock radio was nice, but what ELSE was there?? I actually remember saying to my parents, ‘that’s all?” and laying out my case that somehow there should be MORE. Oh, my… an intelligent person so deceived in life as to lay out a case for ENTITLEMENT! (see anyone like that on TV or at a university these days?) Oh, how someone should have laid it all out on the line to help me see my selfishness and ignorance!! Shallowness, sense of entitlement… you name it. But I’m sharing this embarrassingly detestable moment with you because these are the moments that teach the life lessons. The moments that stick with me and keep me humble because I realize what an ignoramus I used to be, and how far Jesus has helped me come, and the love and patience it must have taken in addition to my abject humiliation, because sometimes there is no other way.

Oh, I could tell my dad’s blood was boiling, but instead of giving me the belt for an additional birthday surprise, do you know what he did? he disappeared for a while and returned with something else for me. A pocket sized New Testament in which he had handwritten my name, the date, and numerous chapter and verse references in the Book of Romans. How’s that for a slap upside the head? And with the ultimate authority: the word of God.

At this moment I couldn’t tell you exactly which verses those were (as I can’t put my fingers on that little book right now although I know I just saw it somewhere)… but in reviewing Romans, those verses could have been some of MANY.

Romans 1:19?
“… because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them.”

Romans 1:21-32?
“For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened… Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity… a depraved mind, unrighteousness, greed, evil, envy, strife, disobedient to parents, without understanding… ”

Man, whatever it was, slapped me upside the head, and hard. It shut me up good. For the moment anyway.

But anyway, what is my point with all this embarrassment of myself other than to show what God can do in a life which is EVERYTHING?? How God can strike the most horrible sinner down on the road to Damascus and turn him or her into the most faithful follower of Jesus on the planet, and the next Saul turned into Paul could be YOU???

My point was I guess to illustrate that even though 10 years old is enough to do many things, and they can appear to have it all under control, they still need your guidance, parents. There is still MUCH growth that is happening, and NEEDS to happen, emotionally and spiritually, and in every way. They’re still little, and they need love and attention. Keep them close and be involved in their lives. They need a solid foundation from which to blossom. Don’t leave them alone to do it, because the devil is counting on you to leave your kids alone and to find their own way in life. He wants to keep them away from God so he can lie to them and tell them they’re ‘all that’ and they don’t need God – but it’s not true. The devil is counting on you to be a friend to the world, to “let your kids decide for themselves about God, when they’re older”. So don’t be lazy about it, because if or when they’re fortunate enough to realize it on their own one day, don’t you see they’re going to hold you accountable as they put the pieces together, and wonder WHY you didn’t tell them the truth about life? That the important things aren’t the worldly things, but the things OF GOD? Not the clock radios of life, but the things of the heart?

Yes, we are no stranger to Jesus in our home, but we can do better. We can teach our kids to get closer to Him. With Jesus, our kids are safe – in an eternal way, which is all that matters. For what good does it do to gain the whole world and lose your soul??

As for Nicholas, I think the real reason he was so upset the other night doesn’t have to do with his picture in the paper… it has to do with the feeling that nothing has seemed ‘normal’ since Gavin died. Dan and I need to work on that around here. We asked him if that was the real reason he was upset and then the tears came heavier. Like a relief that we could finally help him with his worry – he just wants to feel he can somehow have a normal life again. Truthfully, we’ve been limping along as a family, trying to find our way through the clouds. But a family is led by the parents. Yes, there may be a silver lining, but to find it might mean letting go of Gavin. And Dan and I don’t want to, even though we know we will have to. Yes, we know he is no longer here with us, but we still don’t want to imagine being a family without him either. As a grown up, in many ways everything you look forward to comes through your children. And to lose one of them along the way brings indescribable feelings that sometimes aren’t able to be reconciled – just managed – and it’s lonely. For EVERYONE. And personal. And few understand. Yet ‘life goes on.’ Primarily, for everyone else but yes, for us too.

OK, I think I’ve RAMBLED ENOUGH for one morning. Thanks for listening to the ongoing saga of grief and gratitude and adjustment and reality of life in a family where one of our children has gone to Heaven long before the rest of us. It’s a struggle to balance one foot “in the world” and the other foot in forever. I share it because someone, somewhere might be helped by understanding they aren’t alone in whatever they’re struggling with, and that Jesus can help you through it.

By the way, to me, it’s been one year TODAY. I know it’s only the 16th, but I will always remember that Gavin went to Heaven on a Monday morning before school, and what it was like having to tell his brothers.

If you feel compelled, would you please say a prayer for our family? We’d sure appreciate it.

Psalm 25:12-15
Who is the man who fears the Lord?
He will instruct him in the way he should choose.
His soul will abide in prosperity,
And his descendants will inherit the land.
The secret of the Lord is for those who fear Him,
And He will make them know His covenant.
My eyes are continually toward the Lord,
For He will pluck my feet out of the net.

2 Corinthians 12:9
And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.

Deuteronomy 8:3,5
He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord… Thus you are to know in your heart that the Lord your God was disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son.

]]>https://amazinggavin.wordpress.com/2015/11/16/on-being-10-years-old/feed/1MallTreeamazinggavinWhy are some of us sick??https://amazinggavin.wordpress.com/2015/11/09/why-are-some-of-us-sick/
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“Oh, we don’t really think we’re ‘sick’, it’s just that we keep getting the flu, or have this rash, or pain, or infection that is always there, or, even after age 25 we still get pimples from ‘adolescent skin.’ And every few weeks our nose starts running, and our athlete’s foot keeps coming back. We can’t get rid of our horrible breath, or we never have the energy we should have, and our spouse has that pesky ‘yeast thing’, or an abscess that keeps needing to be drained, and recurrent herpes outbreaks.”

I’m no doctor, but just a well read mom who’s been through a nightmare of experiences seeing her very young son be treated for a fungal infection in his lung over the course of years by some EXPERTS at a nationally renowned Children’s Hospital where they loved him and had the best surgeons and the very best drugs for him, until he DIED of toxicity and nutrient malabsorption in November 2014. For their convenience, it is MY heart, and my husband’s heart, and Gavin’s brothers hearts that break every day without him, not his doctor’s. So, please don’t construe any of this article as medical advice, but consider the following scenario as a possibility:

You are at war. The most insidious form of evil imaginable has invaded you. The enemy has quietly moved into your personal territory and set up headquarters. They continually send out scout and raiding parties that take over new turf, new parts of your body. The newly established invaders have connected into your cellular metabolic energy systems and are drawing off your chemistry and Life Force and are diverting and perverting it to their own use. They actually force you to create more of them. Yep, ‘you have a cold’. Or it’s a bacterial, or viral, or yeast, or parasitic infection.

When so many of us constantly have so many symptoms, no one knows what health even IS anymore – so everyone joins the comfort of futility and says, “well, it’s just one of those things we have to put up with during our lifetimes,” as if we should resign ourselves to it.

There is one thing we can say about ALL of the pathogens that invade you and cause you to suffer through a disease – they are foreign to you! BECAUSE YOU HAVE A LOW OXYGEN CONDITION IN YOUR CELLS, they take hold and start eating parts of you. Then they reproduce and grow a colony also excreting toxins that make you sick, or sometimes give you a fever, or sore throat, or Arthritis, or Cancer, or AIDS, or Fibromyalgia, or Herpes, or Candida, or a cold, etc. Since you no longer get enough oxygen from breathing, or from your food, or your water, they can grow in you because of the low oxygen level in your cells.

I mean sure, “WE LIVE”… but only because our bodies were created as marvels of adaptation. We are quickly finding out that there are limits to the amount of self-imposed abuse and partying and garbage-eating that our bodies can endure.

And as for our environment? we used to think that the earth was a giant sponge that could soak up anything we threw away, kind of like magic. Well folks… the sponge is finally full and we’ve run out of that kind of magic. t=The choice now is between limping along to age 60, or living full happy lives up to 100 and beyond. Within our little range of lifestyle choices we make the decision between these two extremes many times every day. What do we put in our mouths? Is it whole foods, rich in nutrition and enzymes as God intended?? or is it processed garbage that looks cute because it’s shaped like fishy crackers or gummy bears or tastes good like pizza, ice cream, sugary sodas, juices or even worse, artificially sweetened stuff that has a shelf life as old as our kids are?

Visit any hospital and you’ll see how most have chosen, and I’m telling you pharmaceutical drugs only ADD to the toxicity. You need oxygen therapy, my friends.

Enzyme Deficiency Symptoms

by Life Enthusiast

Is it possible to be sick even though you eat organic foods and stay away from the ‘bad stuff’? Apparently yes! Our food is grown in fields that are deficient in minerals. It is picked under-ripe, transported in refrigerated trucks, and stored in warehouses for several days before it reaches you. Your food is compromised, and it causes enzyme deficiency that can manifest in a variety of ways.

Syndromes Common To Enzyme Deficiency

PMS

Hot flashes

Cold hands and feet

Neck and shoulder aches

Sprue (celiac disease)

Inflammation

Chronic allergies

Common colds

Diverticulitis

Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Chronic fatigue

Sinus infection

Immune depressed conditions

Protease Deficiency

Back weakness

Fungal forms

Constipation

High Blood Pressure

Insomnia

Hearing problems

Parasites

Gum disorders

Gingivitis

Lipase Deficiency

Aching feet

Arthritis

Bladder problems

Cystitis

Acne

Gall bladder stress

Gallstones

Hay fever

Prostate problems

Psoriasis

Urinary weakness

Constipation

Diarrhea

Heart problems

Amylase Deficiency

Skin Breakouts – rashes

Hypoglycemia

Depression

Mood swings

Allergies

Digestive Enzymes

Protease Deficiency

Protease digests protein. The benefit of proteolytic enzymes has been studied for decades primarily in the United States, Germany and Japan. Research was focused on immune support, inflammation and cancer.

Since everything that makes us sick is either protein or is protected by protein, the immune system is in constant need of protease. Bacteria, parasites, and fungal forms are all protein. Viruses and cancer cells are protected by protein. Protease has the ability to digest these unwanted debris in the blood. Therefore, protease deficient people are immune compromised, making them susceptible to bacterial, viral and yeast infections and a general decrease in immunity.

Amylase Deficiency

Amylase digests carbohydrates (converts them to sugars) along with dead white blood cells. When you are low in amylase you are a candidate for blood sugar imbalances, Hypoglycemia, Type II Diabetes, carbohydrate cravings and allergies. Amylase is also involved in anti-inflammatory reactions such as those caused by the release of histamine and similar substances. Asthma and emphysema may also be exacerbated by an amylase deficiency.

Lipase Deficiency

Since lipase digests fat, fat-soluble vitamins and balances fatty acids. Lipase deficient people can be expected to have a tendency towards high cholesterol, high triglycerides and difficulty losing weight. The future outcome of these tendencies is heart disease, which kills more Americans than any other disease. Lipase deficient people also have decreased cell permeability, meaning nutrients cannot get in and the waste cannot get out. The condition of vertigo or labrynthis, also called Meniere’s Disease (dizziness aggravated by movement such as walking or driving), can also result from lipase deficiency.

Cellulase Deficiency

The symptoms of cellulase deficiency can best be described as malabsorption syndrome (impaired absorption of nutrients, vitamins, or minerals from the diet by the lining of the small intestine). Malabsorption has many symptoms including lower abdominal gas, pain, bloating and problems associated with the jejunum and pancreas. The consumption of fiber enriched nutritional drinks, which are full of cellulose, can exacerbate these problems.

A cellulase deficiency can also lead to fungal overgrowth such as Candida. The cell wall of Candida contains chitin which is very similar to cellulose (fiber). This can often make it difficult to remove once an overgrowth develops. Cellulase taken orally can often assist in bringing the Candida overgrowth back into balance.

Cellulase breaks down the fiber in our diet. Because our body does not produce cellulase, this food enzyme is essential. The Lactase deficient people also have classic symptoms which include abdominal cramps and diarrhea. Other allergic symptoms, including asthma, have been witnessed from the ingestion of lactose-containing products.

Sucrase, Lactase & Maltase Deficiency

People who have malabsorption syndrome and cellulose deficiency also have a tendency towards sugar (sucrose, lactose, & maltose) and/or gluten intolerance. Sucrose, lactose and maltose are three common sugars which some people cannot tolerate. They are broken down and absorbed into the system by three enzymes; sucrase, lactase and maltase.

Sucrase deficient people cannot split the sucrose disaccharide into twin partners, glucose and fructose. Glucose is a primary brain food so expect mental and emotional problems in people who are sucrase deficient. Symptoms include depression, moodiness, panic attacks, manic and schizophrenic behavior and severe mood swings.

Maltase Deficiency

Maltase deficient people are generally sensitive to environmental conditions. An intolerance to sucrose, lactose or maltose may be worsened by a deficiency in sucrase, lactase or maltase.

Combination Deficiency

Combination Deficiency is when an individual has more than one of the above deficiencies. The person will most often have the most severe digestive issues. Crohn’s Disease, Colitis, and Irritable Bowel Syndrome are quite common.

Gluten grains can be a real problem for example. These grains include wheat, oats, rye and barley. Not everyone has to avoid all four grains; however, sometimes it is a must. Gluten intolerance is associated with Celiac Disease and Malabsorption Syndrome. It is also associated with Crohn’s Disease. Gluten is actually a protein that exist in these high carbohydrate grains. The best way to address this is usually a high potency protease and amylase enzyme combination.

The insidious thing about gluten intolerance is that it creates a sugar intolerance because when gluten intolerant people eat gluten containing foods, the brush border cells of the jejunum are injured and thus unable to secrete the disaccharidases (sucrase, lactase and maltase) leading to sugar intolerance. The problems discussed here are just the tip of the iceberg. More discoveries continue to emerge as research with food enzymes continues.

Therapeutic Uses Of Enzymes

If enzymes truly are catalysts which participate in virtually every bodily process, and if a shortage can cause a variety of illnesses, then why are they not widely used as a treatment? It is certainly true that they are not widely used here in the Americas, but what about other countries? In Europe enzyme therapy is routinely used to treat a variety of illnesses.

As you become familiar and comfortable working with enzymes they will serve you as no other supplementation program. The one thing we must all be able to do is digest, assimilate, utilize, eliminate and create healthy cells to live. The body requires enzymes to do all this work. If it is true the body uses 80% of its energy just to digest food, there can be no limit to the benefit of plant based enzymes in this process.

Protease

It is known that protease’s are able to dissolve almost all proteins as long as they are not components of living cells. Normal living cells are protected against lysis by the inhibitor mechanism. Parasites, fungal forms, and bacteria are protein. Viruses are cell parasites consisting of nucleic acids covered by a protein film. Enzymes can break down undigested protein, cellular debris, and toxins in the blood, sparing the immune system this task. The immune system can then concentrate its full action on the bacterial, viral or parasitic invasion.

Protease is a polymorphic enzyme. The enzyme action it produces can adapt to meet the current digestive or metabolic needs of the body. It should be noted that protease when taken on an empty stomach is readily taken up into the mucosa cells of the intestine and passed into the blood circulation. Clinical observations (manuscript in preparation) have noted that upon high intake of oral protease, heavy metal concentrations have been significantly decreased in the blood.

Lipase

Fats are the most difficult component of the diet to digest. Fatty foods cause more indigestion than proteins or starches.

Most Americans have crossed-wires when it comes to fats. Because of bulging waistlines, most Americans battle between fat-phobia and fat-craving. The human body is programmed to crave fats. Without essential fats and fatty nutrients animals and humans cease to thrive. Omega-3 and omega-6 fats from flaxseed and cold-water fish were found to be essential for human health by physiologists in the 1930s. Fat-soluble nutrients such as beta carotene, lutein, and vitamins A, D, E and K fulfill important functions in health maintenance. So fat isn’t all bad.

The American diet is intentionally laden with saturated fats and hardened hydrogenated fats, leaving about 80% of the population deficient in the essential fats required for the maintenance of the human nervous system, the production of hormones and the control of inflammation. Foods actually taste better when they contain fats. A famous fast-food quarter-pound hamburger actually has a saturated fat content equivalent to 16 pats of butter! The fast-food engineers really know how to stimulate our taste buds.

It is worth noting here that weight loss is a common finding among individuals with chronic heart failure. It is evident that malabsorption of fats is related to heart failure. In one study subjects with heart disease had 10 times more fat in their stool than heart-healthy individuals. This means those with heart disease weren’t absorbing their fats (Am J Cardiology 5: 295, 1960). Yet heart patients are typically placed on low-fat diets! These individuals were leaner, but not healthier.

For these same reasons, fat blockers such as Olean and Elestra are undesirable. They keep fat from being absorbed, but they also keep fatty nutrients from being available. Under-nutrition occurs in about half of the patients with chronic heart failure.

Fats are a major source of fuel for the heart muscle. The use of lipase has been suggested to improve fat absorption (Am J cardiology 8: 43, 1963).

It was not until 1997 that researchers found that lipase also can help to control LDL cholesterol and is helpful in stubborn cases of high triglycerides. (Lipids 32: 1147, 1997).

Low levels of lipase have been found among adults who have benign fatty tumors surrounding their eyelids, an unsightly condition called xanthelasma. Adults with this condition often hide these fatty growths with makeup. While lipase is untried in these cases, a course of daily lipase with meals may prove to be a remedy.

Plant Based Enzymes versus Animal Enzymes

Enzymes are the energy of life. All supplemental enzymes, with very rare exception, can be beneficial to one degree or another. If you must choose one, which would it be? When considering the benefits of animal (or glandular, usually represented by USP) versus plant enzymes, the following may be helpful.

Animal enzymes, or pancreatic enzymes, are from the pancreas of a slaughter house animal. Ask yourself “What was the condition of this animal and its organs before he was slaughtered.” How does anyone know?

Pancreatic enzymes tend to claim high unit amounts, such as 31,500 units of protease. However, this amount, or unit measurement, does not indicate the actual enzyme activity level. 31,500 units of protease will yield a level of only 356 units of digestive activity. Compare this to hundreds of thousands of units of actual protease activity in our plant based enzymes. Enzyme effectiveness depends on activity not weight. Remember to compare “apples to apples”.

Don’t forget about the importance of the pH balance. Pancreatin requires a pH of 8.0 to be of use in the system. The human body reaches this 8.0 pH in the small intestine after major digestion has already taken place. Plant enzymes have the capability to work between 3 and 9 pH. They are blended as neutral, alkaline and acidic to cover all concerns in our formulations. This means they work throughout the entire digestive tract and in the blood. For instance, one English study showed a small dose of acid stable lipase from a plant source was more effective than a dosage 25 times larger of conventional pancreatin in the treatment of malabsorption and malnutrition due to pancreatic enzyme deficiency.

]]>https://amazinggavin.wordpress.com/2015/10/31/read-this-everything-that-makes-us-sick-is-either-a-protein-or-protected-by-protein/feed/2bunny2amazinggavinWhat are Systemic Enzymes, and what do they do?https://amazinggavin.wordpress.com/2015/10/31/what-are-systemic-enzymes-and-what-do-they-do/
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By: Dr. William Wong ND, PhD

The word “systemic” means body wide. Systemic enzymes are those that operate not just for digestion but throughout your body in every system and organ. But let’s take first things first, what is an enzyme?

An enzyme is a biocatalyst – something that makes something else work or work faster. Chemical reactions are generally slow things, enzymes speed them up. Without enzymes the chemical reactions that make up our life would be too slow for life as we know it. (As slow as sap running down a tree in winter). For life to manifest as we know it, enzymes are essential to speed up the reactions. We have roughly some 3000 enzymes in our bodies and that results in over 7000 enzymic reactions. Most of these enzymes are derived or created from what we think of as the protein digesting enzymes. But while digestion is an important part of what enzymes do, it’s almost the absolute last function. First and foremost these body wide proteolytic (protein eating) enzymes have the following actions:

Natural Anti-Inflammatory.

They are the first line of defense against inflammation. (1,2,3). Inflammation is a reaction by the immune system to an irritation. Let’s say you have an injured right knee. The immune system sensing the irritation the knee is undergoing creates a protein chain called a Circulating Immune Complex (CIC for short), tagged specifically for that right knee. (The Nobel Prize in biology was won in 1999 by a scientist who discovered this tagging mechanism). This CIC floats down to the right knee and causes pain, redness and swelling are the classic earmarks for inflammation. This at first is a beneficial reaction; it warns us that a part of ourselves is hurt and needs attention. But, inflammation is self-perpetuating, itself creating an irritation that the body makes CIC’s to in response!

Aspirin, Ibuprofen, Celebrex, Vioxx and the rest of the Non Steroidal Anti Inflammatory Drugs all work by keeping the body from making all CIC’s. This ignores the fact that some CIC’s are vital to life, like those that maintain the lining of the intestine and those that keep the kidneys functioning! Not to mention the fact that the NSAID’s, along with acetaminophen, are highly toxic to the liver. Every year 20,000 Americans die from these over the counter drugs and another 100,000 will wind up in the hospital with liver damage, kidney damage or bleeding intestines from the side effects of these drugs. (4,5).

Systemic enzymes on the other hand are perfectly safe and free of dangerous side effects. They have no LD-50, or toxic dose. (6). Best of all systemic enzymes can tell the difference between the good CIC’s and the bad ones because hydrolytic enzymes are lock and key mechanisms and their “teeth” will only fit over the bad CIC’s. So instead of preventing the creation of all CIC’s, systemic enzymes just “eat” the bad ones and in so doing lower inflammation everywhere. With that, pain is lowered also.

Anti Fibrosis.

Enzymes eat scar tissue and fibrosis. (7). Fibrosis is scar tissue and most doctors learn in anatomy that it is fibrosis that eventually kills us all. Let me explain. As we age, which starts at 27, we have a diminishing of the bodies’ output of enzymes. This is because we make a finite amount of enzymes in a lifetime and we use up a good deal of them by the time we are 27. At that point the body knows that if it keeps up that rate of consumption we’ll run out of enzymes and be dead by the time we reach our 40’s. (Cystic Fibrosis patients who have virtually no enzyme production to speak of, even as children usually don’t make it past their 20’s before they die of the restriction and shrinkage in the lungs from the formation of fibrosis or scar tissue).

So our body in it’s wisdom begins to dole out our enzymes with an eyedropper instead of with a tablespoon; as a result the repair mechanism of the body goes out of balance and has nothing to reduce the over abundance of fibrin it deposits in nearly every thing from simple cuts, to the inside of our internal organs and blood vessels. This is when most women begin to develop things like fibrocystic breast disease, uterine fibroids, endometriosis, and we all grow arterial sclerotic (meaning scar tissue) plaque, and have fibrin beginning to spider web its way inside of our internal organs reducing their size and function over time. This is why as we age our wounds heal with thicker, less pliable, weaker and very visible scars.

If we replace the lost enzymes we can control and reduce the amount of scar tissue and fibrosis our bodies have. As physicians in the US are now discovering, even old scar tissue can be “eaten away” from surgical wounds, pulmonary fibrosis, kidney fibrosis and even keloids years after their formation. Medical doctors in Europe and Asia have known this and have used orally administered enzymes for these situations for over 40 years!

Blood Cleansing.

The blood is not only the river of life, it is also the river through which the cells and organs dispose of their garbage and dead material. Enzymes improve circulation by eating the excess fibrin that causes blood to sometimes get as thick as catsup or yogurt, creating the perfect environment for the formation of clots. All of this material is supposed to be cleared by the liver on its “first pass”, or the first time it goes through but given the sluggish and near toxic or toxic states of everyone’s liver these days that seldom happens. So the sludge remains in the blood waiting for the liver to have enough free working space and enough enzymes to clean the trash out of the blood. This can take days, and in some cases, weeks! (8).

When systemic enzymes are taken, they stand ready in the blood and take the strain off of the liver by:

Cleaning excess fibrin from the blood and reducing the stickiness of blood cells. These two actions minimize the leading causes of stroke and heart attack causing blood clots. (8).

Breaking dead material down small enough that it can immediately pass into the bowel. (8).

Cleanse the FC receptors on the white blood cells improving their function and availability to fight off infection. (9).

And here we come to the only warning we have to give concerning the use of systemic enzymes – don’t use the product if you are a hemophiliac or are on prescription blood thinners like Coumadin, Heparin and Plavix, without direct medical supervision. The enzymes cause the drugs to work better so there is the possibility of thinning the blood too much.

Immune System Modulating.

Enzymes are adaptogenic seeking to restore a steady state to the body. (9). When the immune system is running low we become susceptible to infectious disease, when it’s cranked up too high then the system creates antibodies that attack it’s own tissues as are seen in the auto immune diseases of MS, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and Lupus. Here the enzymes will tone down immune function and eat away at the antibodies the immune system is making to attack its bodies own tissue.

Virus Fighting.

Viruses harm us by replicating in our bodies. To do this a virus must bond itself to the DNA in our cells through the medium of its exterior protein cell wall. Anything that disrupts that cell wall inhibits the ability of viral replication by rendering individual viruses inert. (10,11). Systemic enzymes can tell the difference between the proteins that are supposed to be in your body and those that are foreign or not supposed to be there, (again the enzyme lock and key mechanism).

One note: many in the States have learned in school that enzymes are too big a protein to be absorbed through the gut. The pioneering research done in the US by Dr. Max Wolf (MD & PhD x7) at Columbia University in the 40’s through the 70’s has not made it to the awareness of most doctors. There are currently over 200 peer reviewed research articles dealing with the absorption, utilization and therapeutic action of orally administered systemic enzymes. A search through Pub Med using the key words: serrapeptase, papain, bromelain, trypsin, chymo trypsin, nattokinase and systemic enzyme will yield some of the extensive work. Systemic enzymes now have a 4 decade plus history of widespread medical use in central Europe and Japan.

]]>https://amazinggavin.wordpress.com/2015/10/31/what-are-systemic-enzymes-and-what-do-they-do/feed/0ChewYourFoodamazinggavinWhy do I write and share what I do?https://amazinggavin.wordpress.com/2015/10/18/why-do-i-write-and-share-what-i-do/
https://amazinggavin.wordpress.com/2015/10/18/why-do-i-write-and-share-what-i-do/#commentsSun, 18 Oct 2015 22:19:35 +0000http://amazinggavin.wordpress.com/?p=169Continue reading →]]>Shortly after Gavin died last November, a friend made this video for us. We’ve learned A LOT more since then, and I think it’s time to make another one. I’ve written a lot and shared a lot. Lots has happened. Our hearts still hurt, but we are not broken. Would you please watch and share?

]]>https://amazinggavin.wordpress.com/2015/10/18/why-do-i-write-and-share-what-i-do/feed/3cropped-10369132_498191323669318_6440718255751577543_n.jpgamazinggavinPasteur? Congratulations – you fooled everyone.https://amazinggavin.wordpress.com/2015/10/16/pasteur-fooled-everyone-for-money/
https://amazinggavin.wordpress.com/2015/10/16/pasteur-fooled-everyone-for-money/#commentsFri, 16 Oct 2015 18:17:38 +0000http://amazinggavin.wordpress.com/?p=166Continue reading →]]>There are prime and secondary causes of diseases. For example, the prime cause of the plague is the plague bacillus, but secondary causes of the plaque are filth, rats, and the fleas that transfer the plague bacillus from rats to man. By a prime cause of a disease I mean one that is found in EVERY case of the disease.

Cancer, above all other diseases, has countless secondary causes. But, even for cancer, there is only one prime cause. Summarized in a few words, the prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the respiration of oxygen in normal body cells by a fermentation of sugar. All normal body cells meet their energy needs by respiration of oxygen, whereas cancer cells meet their energy needs in great part by fermentation. All normal body cells are thus obligate anaerobes, whereas all cancer cells are partial anaerobes. From the standpoint of the physics and chemistry of life this difference between normal and cancer cells is so great that one can scarcely picture a greater difference. Oxygen gas, the donor of energy in plants and animals is dethroned in the cancer cells and replaced by an energy yielding reaction of the lowest living forms, namely, a fermentation of glucose.

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Did you know?? There was a time in human history when our forefathers lived as many centuries as we do decades. Our first parent Adam lived 930 years, his son Seth lived 912 years. Lameth, Noah’s father lived 595 years and Noah was 600 years old when the Great Flood came. Methuselah, the oldest man in history, died in the Great Flood at age 969. It is not unusual for modern day skeptics to scoff at Biblical Revelation, especially when it comes to people living such long lives. What these scoffers fail to realize is the earth was different. At that time the oxygen content of the air exceeded 50%. Today at best our oxygen content is only 21% and that is directly on the seashore. In most towns, it’s about 17%, in the City its 15%, and in sick buildings and industrial cities its even worse.

Many scientists were stunned recently when it was revealed that air bubbles trapped in fossilized amber, had been analyzed and found to contain oxygen levels of 38%. Yet, today, it is well known that our air today contains about half that amount. In other words, scientists are discovering today, what Biblical revelations told us centuries ago. They see a direct correlation between decreases in oxygen levels and seemingly concurrent increases in human illness and disease.

This only serves to confirm the work of Dr. Otto Warburg the 1931 Noble prize winner who concluded that cancer cells can only begin to proliferate in the human when the cells become oxygen deficient. Furthermore, his research demonstrated that cancer cells couldn’t proliferate at all when exposed to an oxygen rich environment. Scientists are now concerned about the apparently declining oxygen content of the air, because a growing body of research appears to conclusively back up Dr. Warburg’s 1931 conclusions. In fact, a number of World-Class scientists, including renowned molecular biologist and geneticist, Dr. Stephen Levine, have concluded the same results. Their research shows that a lack of oxygen in human cells and tissue is indeed the underlying root cause of not only cancer, but of every modern day chronic degenerative disease.

So, it appears that the human body is not deficient in drugs, radiation, antibiotics or chemotherapy, but in OXYGEN. The dwindling oxygen content combined with our junk food diet, toxic drug medicines and other lifestyle factors have sapped the body of substantial amounts of oxygen. This is the primary cause of the unprecedented worldwide upsurge in chronic degenerate diseases, cancer, arthritis, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, chronic fatigue, premature aging and many serious ill health conditions.

Why Don’t Vitamins Work Too Well For Some People?

It’s a perplexing problem I know, and some nutritionists would like to avoid the issue but, it’s a fact that for some people vitamins are not very efficient. These people can pop pills until they are blue in the face, but very little happens. Many medical doctors new to the field of nutrition have never been trained in Naturopathic medicine. The bottom line is that nutrition cannot work efficiently in a toxic body. A toxic body is an oxygen-starved body – if the body is being starved of oxygen, then to avoid serious illness, oxygen must be supplemented. There is no better oxygen supplement discovered to date then ozone therapy. Ozone therapy provides a highly effective solution to one of the most perplexing problems in nutritional medicine. How to help a body more effectively oxidize and metabolize the health-giving, disease-preventing nutrients it needs. Look it up for yourself!

Sickness and disease are not caused by GERMS.

Mainstream medicine believes that virtually all illness is caused by germs or genetic hereditary weakness (as well as deformities and trauma injuries). Their solution and strategy is to have us believe that there are over 10,000 different diseases and that each of these diseases requires outside intervention from pharmaceutical drugs and surgeries.

THE TRUTH however, is that most illness is due to cellular malfunction caused by toxicities and malnutrition, both of which can be avoided and overcome naturally.

I could tell you many details of my beautiful Gavin’s life that could illustrate the ways that this is true. I saw it for myself, over and over, but was afraid to believe in it 100%. How could it be? The entire medical and specialty care industry is wrong? They’re just out to make a profit? It can’t be. There are good people who are doctors. They care about me! We all know of people still standing who’ve had some sort of care with drugs or surgery or chemo, and how it never came back. Yet my son took all the drugs his ‘specialists’ prescribed without ever missing a dose, and we avoided every situation possible that might be high risk… and he still ended up with a fungal infection in his lung. Then numerous surgeries to remove it. And how could I forget about the drugs, both IV and oral… every day, all the time. “It just happens, and we will never know why.” Right? WRONG.

I know now, that my son died from oxygen starvation and malnutrition on a CELLULAR LEVEL… even though I thought I was doing everything right – nutrition included. More heartbroken I could not be!! You see, because of drug toxicity… he was not able to absorb it. I am truly sickened as I realize how true and prolific this is. He died two weeks after having yet another hospital procedure that included IV meds and more toxicity… drugs that we had been avoiding for months and saw many healing changes in his body. Shortly upon admittance for this procedure, those old wounds that had healed… opened back up.

Most people have been conditioned to believe in what is called the “Louis Pasteur germ theory of disease” — that germs cause disease. You can inhale them, they get in through openings in your mouth, eyes, nose, you can’t avoid them… therefore you need to protect yourself from them! We are told this all the time, and I believed it for years and years myself – Take these prophylactic drugs or antibiotics, get rid of and aviod the germs! Wash your hands, keep them out of your face, take this drug to kill that off and then you can go back about your business as before. The truth is that germs (bacteria) are everywhere (and doctors know this)… but what they don’t usually tell you is… bacteria are only attracted to and proliferate in DISEASED TISSUES.

You see, bacteria decompose dead matter. THAT’S THEIR JOB. For instance, when a tree dies, bacteria come in and eat the tree and it eventually becomes soil. Bacteria does not eat a live, healthy tree, does it? Well, the same thing is true in people — bacteria are attracted to dead matter. Therefore, if you have dead matter in your body, bacteria will come in and get to work decomposing the dead tissue so that it may eventually become soil. You need to attend to that diseased tissue yourself ASAP with oxygen and nutrition before that happens.

Few people are aware of the controversy which surrounded Pasteur in his early days or of the work of a more esteemed contemporary whose works Pasteur plagiarized and distorted. That contemporary was fellow French Academy of Sciences member Antoine Bechamp, one of France`s most prominent and active researchers and biologists whose theories and research results stood in stark opposition to Pasteur`s germ theory.

Bechamp, on the other hand, proved through original research that most diseases are the result of diseased tissue in the body, and that bacteria and viruses are largely AFTER-effects instead of causes of disease.

Antoine Bechamp scientifically proved that germs are the chemical by-products (waste and toxins) of pathogenic microorganisms acting upon the unbalanced, malfunctioning cell metabolism and dead tissue that actually produce disease. Bechamp found that this DISEASED, ACIDIC, LOW-OXYGEN environment… is created by a toxic/nutrient deficient diet, toxic emotions, and a toxic lifestyle.

Bechamp’s findings demonstrate how cancer itself develops through the morbid changes of germs to bacteria, bacteria to viruses, viruses to fungal forms and fungal forms to cancer cells. All you readers and researchers out there must have come across this sort of information on your own, in your internet travels?

Anyway, after some initial controversy, Pasteur`s germ theory ended up winning the day with mainstream medicine – owing in large part to the fact that Pasteur’s theory enabled mainstream medicine to hugely profit from patented drugs and treatments for fighting germs. Think of the industry of medical specialists, specialty labs, pharmaceutical companies, insurance company coverage and ‘help’… ‘searching for the cure’ and MONEY that would be lost, if it were broadcast to be so bottom line basic? Yet NO ONE ever became SICK due to a deficiency in pharmaceutical drugs!! Lack of nutrition combined with exposure to toxins is what causes people to become ill.

You know, you can’t put a patent on stuff found in nature, right?

So, in a practical sense, there was no money in that methodology, because people themselves would be empowered with the ability to resist disease by taking care of themselves. Yes, PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY.

So, if that is true, then not only are allopathic doctors incorrect in
their understanding of the basic nature of disease, they are basing 99 percent of their conclusions, and therefore their diagnosis and treatment of people, on flawed science.

You mean, we’ve been lied to? No… you’ve been DECEIVED. And in the most powerful way the devil himself could possibly orchestrate it: under the guise of the public good.

]]>https://amazinggavin.wordpress.com/2015/10/16/pasteur-fooled-everyone-for-money/feed/1PasteuramazinggavinLosing Friends After Child Losshttps://amazinggavin.wordpress.com/2015/09/30/losing-friends-after-child-loss/
https://amazinggavin.wordpress.com/2015/09/30/losing-friends-after-child-loss/#respondWed, 30 Sep 2015 17:57:31 +0000http://amazinggavin.wordpress.com/?p=158Continue reading →]]>A friend shared this article with me yesterday, and it is a bullseye. It really is. You could also say the same for going through a terrible illness with your child. You lose a lot of friends… but fortunately gain others. It is a major life shift and to say “you find out who your friends are” doesn’t even cover it – that is much too cliché. Truly, some people are cut out to ride the long haul and gain perspective on life, and others are cut out to focus on the happy carrot dangling in front of their noses. They can’t deal with it or basically they choose not to deal with it.

Hey, going through difficult times is just that – difficult. Some people turn and run, some outsource the fight or the help so they can think they’re fighting while still not really facing things, then deal with what comes – and some stand and stay to face it all no matter what. Doesn’t mean anyone is a bad person… just means everyone’s different. Come to think of it, I think those three phases I just described, are levels of maturity. I say that because as I look back on my life I can put myself in each of those three situations, having evolved to the latter. Having lost a child myself, it all hurts the same to lose the friend whichever the reason.

This article is something I think everybody could benefit from reading, because even if you haven’t lost a child or don’t yet know somebody who has, at some point you will. It’s never a bad thing to try on someone else’s shoes… because that’s where true empathy comes from… aka loving others as yourself. And that is one of the very things God is calling each of us to do.

Luke 10:27 He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.'”

]]>https://amazinggavin.wordpress.com/2015/09/30/losing-friends-after-child-loss/feed/0GavinDaddyamazinggavinSo, what would Jesus do?https://amazinggavin.wordpress.com/2015/09/28/what-would-jesus-do/
https://amazinggavin.wordpress.com/2015/09/28/what-would-jesus-do/#respondMon, 28 Sep 2015 16:48:28 +0000http://amazinggavin.wordpress.com/?p=151Continue reading →]]>I’ve come to believe, after reading and reading the Bible – no, I haven’t read the whole thing, but I’m getting there – that all of life is one big, long, test of FAITH. Old Testament or New, it does not matter.

And it sure doesn’t help that this world is the domain of the evil one, the great liar and deceiver, who himself puts thoughts and doubts and rationalizations and fears and the so-called wisdom of almighty man into our brains and into the very fabric of our lives and our loved ones, and GOD ALLOWS THIS. For what? Testing purposes. Can there be no absolute faith in God anymore, that it must not be cross checked with almighty MAN?? And who created man? What a twisted world we have come to live in when the sanity check we are all seeking and hoping to get, is one from another human being, subject to the same deceptions, doubts, rationalizations, fears, and so-called wisdom of almighty men. To please who? Other humans. Ourselves. And who is not guilty of this? You are. I am.

When you’re sick, is finding a way to cheat death (if you can) the answer, or is putting your faith in God, and encouraging others to do the same with ALL your heart, soul, and mind, the answer? What is better – praying day and night that God’s plan for your life is the best answer for you and that He is capable of turning your faith in Him into something greater for the world (or even just for you)… or fighting like hell to remain alive for longer? Would you make a deal with the devil to live longer? What is the point of living longer if it is not for God’s purpose but our own? And if we seek man’s self-proclaimed, infinitely wise counsel, are we putting less faith in God? Or are we just rationalizing our fears and essentially, our lack of faith? Aren’t we?

God said to Abraham in Genesis 18:14 “Is anything too hard for the Lord?”

Yet these decisions are not easy ones for our earthly perspectives and thinking, and that is why I’ve come to believe that all of life is a test. And by their very nature, tests aren’t easy. That’s why they ARE tests. Except that these are the tests that the timelines of our lives are made of, and so from an earthly perspective, what could matter more than the current decisions we are facing? And if all of life is a test, what is it a test FOR? I mean… where is our allegiance? With the world? or with God? We certainly cannot ride the line. “I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.” (Rev 3:15-16) Yikes.

So the question is… What Would Jesus Do? WHAT WOULD JESUS DO??

God is the answer, people. He does not change – but it’s easy to be fooled, because the scenery sure has, and so has the rat race… and of course none of us here in America are traveling by donkey… but “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.” (Heb 13:8) Or is God just someone written about in an old book in the nightstand at a roadside motel, that we give lip service to, because we feel like we should.

From the bottom of my heart, may God bless all people truly having the courage to live by faith and not by sight. IT IS NOT EASY, but it is right, and I pray you have the strength to continue.

Hebrews 12:1
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us.

Jeremiah 32:27
“I am the LORD, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?”